So as part of the changes at the #GothicBank / #ANZWorldHeadquarters, these atriums, created in 1989-93, are going to be opened up and become ‘outside’ into a north and south ‘#campiello’; losing the not-great #pomo vaguely #Gothic structures no great loss, but a curious decision – is it #laneway mania ? The first one (photos 1,2,3), made by demolishing single storey sections at the back of the #GothicBank, will open out to an actual former #laneway, though it will still have plain glass walls into the #GothicBank, and the other one (the darker photo) is partly under the #officetower and only exists due to demolishing a chunk of the 1890 #SafeDepositBuilding ! Those Gothic windows are complete inventions. That one will open into a new three storey space excavated out from under the tower linking to #BriscoeLane), though 1 floor down connected by steps. So I guess the site will be more porous, and with the #CathedralRoom opening into that new space, I guess a lot more visited ? Designed by @kerstin_thompson_architects, Ive only just realised how everything will connect ! Still like to know exactly what it will look like though.

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